From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 6 1:42:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD1B37B401 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 01:42:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E5AE43E4A for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 01:42:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (3ac02f25ee533b717b29748888d6025b@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g968hZho041603; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 01:43:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g968hZ9K041602; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 01:43:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 01:43:35 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: Bart Smit Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: versioning Message-ID: <20021006084335.GL45363@vectors.cx> References: <20021006102717.R51457-100000@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021006102717.R51457-100000@localhost> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG bart - you can likely deduce some answers from: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.7R/schedule.html 4.7-PRERELEASE is a tag marking what the 4.7 release will be all about. then, 4.7-RC, 4.7-RC2, 4.7-RC3 (RC = release candidate) are snapshots that grow closer and closer to what the RE team feels comfortable calling 4.7-RELEASE. so, as you track RELENG_4, you will obtain each tag point sequentially. if you cvsup your sources every day, you will know when RC2 is available because "uname -a" will show 4.7-RC2. -Adam >> (10.06.2002 @ 0134 PST): Bart Smit said, in 0.5K: << > > Hello, > > I'm following the RELENG_4 branch and as far as I can tell I'm using the > very latest from that branch. My box is telling me it's a 4.7-RC. > > Yet, on this list, I see regular references to 4.7-RC2 and sometimes > even 4.7-PRERELEASE. It may be me, but I have no clue what these are. > > What are the other versions? How does one get RC2? Is there a separate > prerelease-branch somewhere that I'm missing? > > --Bart > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > >> end of "versioning" from Bart Smit << -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message